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Robert Royston to
choreograph musical adaptation
of "Urban Cowboy"
Expected to open on Broadway in early 2001
by Allyson
The Unofficial Broadway Swing! Website
May 24, 2000
Congratulations to swing and country dance champion Robert Royston on having been chosen to choreograph a musical adaptation of Aaron Latham's screenplay, Urban Cowboy!
Workshops will begin soon in Massachusetts, with New York workshops expected by this fall. The show is anticipated to open on Broadway early next year.
Robert's choreography can be seen in Swing! in his and Laureen's number, "Boogie Woogie Country," as well as in the West Coast Swing number performed by Aldrin Gonzalez and Beverly Durand in "Throw That Girl Around/Show Me What You Got."
At this time, Robert will continue performing in Swing! with partner Laureen Baldovi. As a team, Robert and Laureen have won more U.C.W.D.C. Master's Division championships than any other couple in the history of country dance (including the '95-'98 World Championships), and Robert has also won their Star Award as Favorite Male Instructor. The team's other titles include: 1997 TNN Country Dance Invitational, 1994 American Swing Dance Championships and the '95-'98 U.S. Open Swing Dance Championships.
'Urban Cowboy' rides anew in N.Y.
Houston Chronicle
Jan. 20, 2000, 5:52PM
THE Sunday snooper: Former Houstonian Phil Oesterman and Aaron Latham have adapted Latham's screenplay of Urban Cowboy into a Broadway musical. They held a staged reading of it last year, and since then have been rewriting and refining it, and they say it's ready to go. Aaron's wife, 60 Minutes' Lesley Stahl, will host a reading of the musical Monday in their penthouse apartment, and another will be held Jan. 31 at Lincoln Center. Mickey Gilley is expected to attend that one. If you remember, Urban Cowboy was set in Gilley's in Pasadena. Phil needed the electric bull that was in Gilley's for the movie, and so he contacted Gilley's former co-owner, Sherwood Cryer, and his partner, Jarard Wilrich, and found that El Toro Company in Deer Park still manufactures a bull. They're getting one. ...
